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2021年06月26日 Pixels in the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: These two panels, composed of video frames made with a safe solar telescope and hydrogen alpha filter, show remarkably sharp details on the solar disk and giant prominences along the Sun’s edge on June 6 (top) and June 18. Taken from Beijing, China, th...
2020年9月23日 ISS Transits Mars Image Credit & Copyright: Tom Glenn Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen the space station do this? If you know when and where to look, watching the bright International Space Station (ISS) drift across your night sky is a fascinating sight — but not very unusual. Images of the ISS crossing in front of the half-deg...
2020 June 8 Atmospheric Ring of Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Pete Lawrence (Digital Sky) Explanation: Why is Venus surrounded by a bright ring? Sometimes called a ring of fire, this rare ring is caused by the Sun’s light being visible all around an object. Usually seen around the Moon during an annular solar eclipse, the ring of fire is also vi...
2020 February 20 Trifecta at Twilight Image Credit & Copyright: Paul Schmit, Gary Schmit Explanation: On February 18, as civil twilight began in northern New Mexico skies, the International Space Station, a waning crescent Moon, and planet Mars for a moment shared this well-planned single field of view. From the photographer’s location the sky had ...
2019 December 2 Mercury Crosses a Quiet Sun Video Credit: NASA, SDO, NASA’s Science Visualization Studio; Music: Gustav Sting (Kevin MacLeod) via YouTube Explanation: What’s that black dot crossing the Sun? The planet Mercury. Mercury usually passes over or under the Sun, as seen from Earth, but last month the Solar System’s innermost plane...
2019 November 14 Mercury and the Quiet Sun Image Credit & Copyright: John Chumack Explanation: On November 11, 2019 the Sun was mostly quiet, experiencing a minimum in its 11 year cycle of activity. In fact, the only spot visible was actually planet Mercury, making a leisurely 5 1/2 hour transit in front of the calm solar disk. About 1/200th the apparent...
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, low center, as it transits across the face of the Sun, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, from Washington, D.C. Mercury’s last transit was in 2016. The next won’t happen again until 2032. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2011年11月11日，星期一，在华盛顿特区，水星在穿过太阳表面的过程中出现了一个低中心的剪影。水星最后一次凌日是在2016年。下一次直到2032年才会发生。 图片来源:NASA/Bill Ingalls
2019 November 13 Mercury in Silhouette Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Wise Explanation: The small, dark, round spot in this solar close up is planet Mercury. In the high resolution telescopic image, a colorized stack of 61 sharp video frames, a turbulent array of photospheric convection cells tile the bright solar surface. Mercury’s more regular ...
2019 November 10 A Mercury Transit Sequence Image Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick Explanation: Tomorrow — Monday — Mercury will cross the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Called a transit, the last time this happened was in 2016. Because the plane of Mercury’s orbit is not exactly coincident with the plane of Earth’s or...
2019 September 14 Little Planet to Exoplanets Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek / ESO Explanation: Of course this little planet is really planet Earth in a digitally stitched 360 x 180 degree mosaic captured high in the Chilean Atacama desert. The seemingly large domes house the 1-meter diameter telescopes of the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory. With...